Which to use
“persisté” and “persister” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #48,713
- “persisté” frequency rank
- #31,178
- “persister” frequency rank
- 79891
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | persisté | persister |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin singulier de persister. | Demeurer ferme et arrêté dans son sentiment, dans ce qu’on a dit, dans ce qu’on a résolu, en dépit d’une résistance. |
Same sound, different letters: persisté vs persister
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. persisté runs 8 letters (CVCCVCCV) against persister's 9 (CVCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: persisté vs persister
This is the hard kind. persisté and persister are pronounced identically (\pɛʁ.sis.te\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 79891, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
persisté is recorded at frequency rank #48,713, classified as averb, pronounced \pɛʁ.sis.te\. persister is at rank #31,178, tagged as averb, pronounced \pɛʁ.sis.te\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 79891, this pair ranks #22,222 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of persisté vs persister
Shared letters: eiprst. Private to "persisté": é. Private to "persister": -.
"persisté" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV · "persister" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- persister ← eprsister · perisster · perrsister · persisetr · persisster · persisterr · persistre · persistter
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "persisté" for "persister" ever safe?
Frequency check: "persisté" vs "persister" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "persisté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "persister" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #22,222 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "persisté" and "persister" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "persique vs persisté". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #22,222 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.